Complex System Theory and College English Teaching Developments

Schema Theory and College English Reading Teaching

Reading plays a dominant role among the four skills in foreign language acquisition for college students. Unfortunately, over the past few decades, English teaching practice shows that Chinese students are vulnerable in it. Both their reading speed and their reading skills are far from being satisfactory. Schema theory presents a very efficient course in developing students' reading skills and ...

Some Reflections about the Construction of College English Teaching System

The paper analyses and researches the problems of constructing college English teaching system, the fostering of students’ abilities in language learning and language communication, the teaching according to students differences, the scientificness, the practicability and the rationality of compiling textbooks. It also puts forward a few tentative ideas of the constructions of the college Engli...

Chapter 1: Piaget’s Theory and College Teaching

Prototype Theory and Teaching English Prepositions

Introduction For many ESL learners, English prepositions pose a perennial problem, partly because the same lexical item -e.g., the word over -can have a variety of functions (as preposition, noun, adverb, adjective and particle (in verb+particle constructions)) and meanings, and partly because of its diversity in collocational properties. With no generalizations emerging, a common learning stra...

Thematic Operational Approach and the Writing Teaching of College English

Thematic structure, an important factor for textual metafunction, plays a significant role in inspecting and promoting the textual coherence. With a theoretical statement of Thematic theory and TP patterns, this paper proposes the feasibility of the Thematic Operational Approach in the teaching of college English writing. This approach is proved to not only strengthen students’ application awar...